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Today's poem:
Mrs. Midas
- by Carol Ann Duffy -
An Onion Walks Into a Classroom…
“I genuinely hadn’t anticipated just how volatile a bag of onions could be in a classroom with thirty teenagers”
—a cautionary tale from Alan Gillespie on the perils of teaching Carol Ann Duffy’s poem “Valentine”
https://www.litromagazine.com/literature/an-onion-walks-into-a-classroom/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #CarolAnnDuffy #Valentine #ValentinesDay #teaching #classroom
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Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love…—Carol Ann Duffy, “Valentine”
published in A Red Rose or a Satin Heart: An Anthology of Scottish Love Poems, @canongatebooks 2010
💝#Scottish #literature #ValentinesDay #poem #poetry #womenwriters #lovepoem #CarolAnnDuffy
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‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/12/female-nude-self-portraits-women-yoko-ono-frida-kahlo-gentileschi-titian-botticelli #Art #ArtAndDesign #Culture #Feminism #YokoOno #JennySaville #TraceyEmin #CarolAnnDuffy #PerformanceArt #Painting #Women #Women
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Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift…—Carol Ann Duffy, “Prayer”
from MEAN TIME (Picador, 2017; Anvil, 1993)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/carol-ann-duffy/mean-time/9781509852949
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #CarolAnnDuffy #womenwriters #prayer
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A moment of teaching insanity today - which I did contribute to, fair enough. A Yr11 guessed exactly the poem and question on their Lit Paper 1 - so I bought them a bag of onions as a prize ("I give you an onion" Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy). Another student then proceeded to eat a raw onion, just because. It was a spicy one. Tears and retching ensued. The rest of the day: "It smells of onions in here, Ms". #Teaching #Education #SecondarySchool #CarolAnnDuffy #Poetry #Poem #Onions
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Warming Her Pearls Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
'Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress
bids me wear them, warm them, until evening
when I'll brush her hair. At six, I place them
round her cool, white throat. All day I think of her'https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/warming-her-pearls/
By walnut whippet from Hull, UK - Original text : Carol Ann Duffy at Humber Mouth 2009Uploaded by Magnus Manske), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10712082
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The Guardian view on the rise of eco-poetry: writing cannot ignore global heating | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/10/the-guardian-view-on-the-rise-of-eco-poetry-writing-cannot-ignore-global-heating #Climatecrisis #CarolAnnDuffy #MatthewArnold #SimonArmitage #Poetlaureate #Environment #PaulMurray #Culture #Poetry #Books #Cop29
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Today's poem:
The Ship
- by Carol Ann DuffyIn the end,
it was nothing more
than the toy boat of a boy
on the local park’s lake,
where I walked with you.But I knelt down
to watch it arrive,
its white sail shy
with amber light,
the late sun
bronzing the wave
that lifted it up,my ship coming in
with its cargo of joy.#ship #poetry #CarolAnnDuffy #love #romance #moment #significance #foreshadowing